Staying Relevant in the Age of Persuasion
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In an age of information glut, writers are in the business of dispensing more info. Therefore it is a good idea to dispense correct info, otherwise writers will simply add more garbage to the heap. To dispense correct info, writers need to be well informed. "Well informed" means reading widely and/re doing proper research. Below you will find a list of informative books I have found useful. Perhaps you will find them useful as well...


William C. Agosta
Chemical Communication, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1992

R. McNeill Alexander
Exploring Biomechanics, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1992

Nathaniel Altman
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Names, Sterling Publishing, NYC, 1999

Poul Anderson
War of the Gods, Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. (Tor Fantasy), NYC, February 1999

Poul Anderson
Starfarers, Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. (Tor Fantasy), NYC, October 1999

Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge, Random House of Canada, Inc, (Del Ray) Toronto, Canada, November 1983

Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale, McCelland & Stewart, Toronto, (8th printing), December 1989

Magaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin, Random House of Canada (Seal Books), www.randomhouse.ca, September 2000

Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake, Random House of Canada, www.randomhouse.ca, April 2004

Robert Aunger
The Electric Meme, Simon & Shusrer Inc. (The Free Press), NYC, 2002

Thomas F. Banchoff
Beyond the Third Dimension, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1990

John Barnes
Orbital Resonance, Tom Doherty Associates Inc. (Tor Books), NYC, October 1992

John Barnes
Mother of Storms,Tom Doherty Associates Inc. (Tor Books), NYC, May 1995

John Barnes
Candle, Tom Doherty Associastes Inc. (Tor Books), NYC, December 2000

Nancy Baron & John Acorn
Birds of Coastal British Columbia, Lone Pine Publishing, Vancouver, BC, 1997

Greg Bear
Darwin's Radio, Random House Ballantine Publishing Group, Toronto, July 2000

Greg Bear
Vitals, Random House Ballantine Publishing Group, Toronto, April 2003

Greg Bear
Quantico, Vanguard Press, 2008

Robert O. Becker M.D. & Gary Sheldon
The Body Electric, Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life, William Morrow, NYC, 1985

William Boyes & Michael Melvin
Economics, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1991

David Brin
Glory Season, (Bantam Spectra) Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc., NYC, June 1994

Borgna Brunner, Editor in Chief
Time Almanac 2002, Information Please, Boston, MA, 2002

Brian Bunch, Jenny Tessar (Discover Magazine)
Discover Science Alamanac, Stonesong Press with Hyperion, NYC, 2003

Anne Cameron
Daughters of Copper Woman, Press Gang Publishers, Vancouver, BC, July 1981

Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Dart, Tim Doherty Associates, Inc (Tor Fantasy), NYC, March 2002

Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Chosen, Tim Doherty Associates, Inc (Tor Fantasy), NYC, March 2003

Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Avatar, Tim Doherty Associates, Inc (Tor Fantasy), NYC, March 2004

John Robert Colombo, General Editor
The 1993 Canadian Global Almanac, MacMillan Canada, Toronto, 1992

John K. Cooley
Unholy Wars (2nd Edition), Pluto Press, London, 2000

Storm Cunningham
The Restoration Economy, Berret-Koehler Publishers Inc., San Francisco, 2002 (1st Edition)

J. M. A. Danby
Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics (2nd edition),Willmann-Bell Inc., Richmond Virginia, 1988

David Dressler & Huntington Potter
Discovering Enzymes, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1991

Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich & John P. Holdren
Ecoscience, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1977

Tom Forester (Editor)
The Materials Revolution, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988

Steven Foster & James A. Duke
Medicinal Plants (Eastern & Central North America), The Easton Press, Norwalk Connecticut, 1990

Louis Friedman
Starsailing, John Wiley & Sons, Toronto, 1988

William Gibson
Neuromancer, The Berkley Publishing Group (An Ace Book), NYC, July 1984

J. E. Gordon
The Science of Structures and Materials, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1988

James L. Gould & Carol Grant Gould
The Honey Bee, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1988

James L. Gould & Carol Grant Gould
Sexual Selection, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1989

Robert A. Heilein
Stranger in a Strange Land, Berkley Medallion Books, NYC, March 1968

Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Berkley Medallion Books, NYC, September 1968

Robert A. Heinlein
Friday, Ballantine Books, NYC, (11th printing), September 1988

James Houston
Hideaway, McClelland & Stewart Inc, Toronto, 1999

Alma R. Hutchens
Indian Herbalogy of North America, The Garden Press Ltd., London, England, 5th Edition 1974

Marjorie Bradley Kellogg
Harmony, (ROC), Penguin Books, 1991

Donald Kingsbury
The Moon Goddess and the Son, Simon & Schuster, NYC, December 1987

Donald Kingsbury
Psychohistorical Crisis, Tom Doherty Associates Inc. (Tor Books), NYC, October 2002

Michio Kushi, transcribed by Joan Mansolilli
Macrobiotic Seminars of Mishio Kushi: Acupunture, Ancient and Future Worlds, Tao Publications, 1970's

Any Lamb & Phil Edgell
Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest, Harbour Park Publishing Co. Ltd., Madeira Park, BC, Canada, 1986

Arnold J. Levine
Viruses, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1992

Elbert L. Little
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees, (Borzoi Book) Alfred A. Knopf Inc., NYC, November 1985

Colleen McCullough
The Thorn Birds, Avon Books (HarperCollins), NYC, 1978 (25th Anniversary Edition)

H. W. Menard
Islands, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Books), NYC, 1986

Max S. Metz
Ephemeriden 1890-1950

Neil F. Michelsen
The American Ephermeris for the 20th Century (Revised Edition)

Neil F. Michelsen (revisions by Rique Pottenger
The American Ephermis for the 21st Century (2nd Edition)

George A. Miller
The Science of Words, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1991

Michael Modzelewski
Inside Passage, HarperCollins Publishers, 1992

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Lucifer's Hammer, The Ballantine Publishing Group (Del Rey), NYC, January 1998

Georges Ohsawa
Zen Macrobiotics, Ohsawa Foundation Inc., 1434 N. Curson Ave., Los Angeles, California, 1965

Georges Ohsawa
Book of Judgement, Ohsawa Foundation Inc., 1434 N. Curson Ave., Los Angeles, California, 1966

Georges Ohsawa
Guidebook for Living, Ohsawa Foundation Inc., 1434 N. Curson Ave., Los Angeles, California, 1967

Chris Pellant
Rocks and Minerals, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1992

Roger Penrose
The Emperor's New Mind, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1989

Roger Penrose
Shadows of the Mind, Vintage (Random House), London, 1995

John R. Pierce & A. Michael Noll
Signals, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1990

Edited & Compiled by Jim Pojar & Andy MacKinnon
Plants of Coastal British Columbia (including Oregon & Alaska), Lone Pine Publishing, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1994

William K. Purves, Gordon H. Orians & H. Craig Heller
Life - The Science of Biology (3rd Edition), W. H. Freeman and Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1992

Larry Ragle
Crime Scene, HaperCollins Publishers Inc. (Avon Books), NYC, October, 1995

Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, 1993

Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, June 1995

Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, July 1997

Colin A. Ronan
SCIENCE: Its History and Development among the World's Cultures, Facts on File Publications, NYC, 1982

Melissa Scott
Dreamships, Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. (Tor Books), NYC, July 1993

Raymond A. Serway
Physics for Scientists and Engineers , Saunders College Publishing, Toronto, 1983

Raymond Siever
Sand, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1988

Dan Simmons
Hyperion, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, March 1990

Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, December 1995

Dan Simmons
Endymion, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, December 1996

Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, July 1998

Bruce Sterling
Islands in the Net, An Ace Book (arrangement with Arbor House), NYC, March 1989

Bruce Sterling
Distraction, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, October 1999

Carol Stoker (editor)
Case for Mars III, Univelt, P. O. Box 28130, San Diego, CA, 92128, 1989

Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels, Crown Publishers Inc, 1947

Carl Payne Tobey
Astrology of Inner Space, Omen Press, Tucson, AZ, 1973

Lao Tsu (translated by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English)
Tao Te Ching, Vintage Books Edition, NYC, 1972

Vladimir I. Vernadsky (translation David B. McMenamin)
The Biosphere, Copernicus, NYC, 1997

Joan D. Vinge
Snow Queen, Warner Books Inc., NYC, September 1989

Joan D. Vinge
Summer Queen, Warner Books Inc., NYC, December 1992

Talbot H. Waterman
Animal Navigation, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1989

John Archibald Wheeler
A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime, W. H. Freeman and Company (Scientific American Library), NYC, 1990

Jack Whyte
Skystone, Penguin, 1993

Jack Whyte
Singing Sword, Penguin, 1993

Walter Jon Williams
Days of Atonement, Tom Doherty Associates Inc. (Tor Books), NYC,1992

Walter Jon Williams
Metropoliton, HarperPrism, HarperCollins Publishers, NYC, 1995

Walter Jon Williams
City on Fire, HarperPrism, HarperCollins Publishers, NYC, 1997

Connie Willis
Impossible Things, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, January 1994

Connie Willis
Doomsday Book, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, reissue July 1994

Connie Willis
Uncharted Territory, Bantam Doubleday Bell Publishing Group (Spectra), NYC, July 1994

Connie Willis
Passage, Bantam Books, a division of Random House Inc, NYC, January 2002

Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog

Edward O. Wilson
The Future of Life, Alfred A. Knopf, NYC, 2002

Robert Charles Wilson
The Chronoliths, Tom Doherty Associates Inc. (Tor Books), NYC, June 2002

Edited by John W. Wright
2001 New York Times Almanac, Penguin Reference Books, Toronto, 2000